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Written Answers to Questions

Tuesday 15 February 2000

PRIME MINISTER

Public Bodies (Fees)

Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Prime Minister which fees his Department, its agencies and associated public bodies collect; how much has been raised and will be raised from each of these fees from 1989-90 to 2004-05; and which of these fees count as negative expenditure. [107974]

The Prime Minister: For the purposes of this question, this answer includes my Office and the Cabinet Office, together with its agencies and associated public bodies. A fee is a charge made under legislative authority. My Office, the Cabinet Office, its agencies and associated public bodies collect no fees.

Privy Council (Judicial Committee)

Mr. Mackinlay: To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his answers of 7 February 2000, Official Report, columns 3-4W, (1) which judges have served on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, who were nominated on the advice of a head of Government of another Commonwealth country in the past twenty years; [109383]

The Prime Minister [holding answer 10 February 2000]: I understand that of those persons appointed to the Privy Council in the last 20 years the following have actually served on the Judicial Committee by virtue of holding or having held judicial office in a superior court outside the United Kingdom:

Privy Councillor
Sir Gordon BissonNew Zealand Court of Appeal
Sir Maurice CaseyNew Zealand Court of Appeal
Sir Thomas EichelbaumNew Zealand Court of Appeal
Sir Thomas FloissacEast Caribbean Supreme Court
Thomas GaultNew Zealand Court of Appeal
Telford GeorgesBahamas Court of Appeal
Sir Michael Hardie BoysNew Zealand Court of Appeal
John HenryNew Zealand Court of Appeal
Sir Duncan McMullinNew Zealand Court of Appeal
Edward ZaccaSupreme Court of Jamaica

Of course, some Privy Councillors appointed prior to 1980 will also have served on the Judicial Committee.


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In the last 20 years, the following people from countries of the Commonwealth other than the UK have been accorded membership of the Privy Council:

Privy Councillor
Duncan MacIntyreNew Zealand
Lancelot Raymond Adams-SchneiderNew Zealand
Sir Duncan McMullin(1)New Zealand
Edward Phillip George SeagaJamaica
Sir Julius ChanPapua New Guinea
Allan LouisySaint Lucia
Robert Milton CatoSt. Vincent and the Grenadines
David Spence ThomsonNew Zealand
Sir Edward Somers(1)New Zealand
Sir Zelman CowenAustralia
George Cadle PriceBelize
Tomasi PuapuaTuvalu
Vere Cornwall BirdAntigua and Barbuda
John George Meluin ComptonSt. Lucia
David LangeNew Zealand
Kennedy Alphonse SimmondsSt. Kitts and Nevis
Sir Geoffrey Winston Russell PalmerNew Zealand
Robert James TizardNew Zealand
Fraser MacDonald ColmanNew Zealand
James Fitz-Allen MitchellSt. Vincent and the Grenadines
Manuel EsquivelBelize
Sir Maurice Casey(1)New Zealand
Telford Georges(1)Bahamas
Herbert Augustus BlaizeGrenada
Anerood JugnauthMauritius
Paias WingtiPapua New Guinea
Francis Duncan O'FlynnNew Zealand
Sir Gordon Bisson(1)New Zealand
Ezekiel AlebuaSolomon Islands
Jonathan Lucas HuntNew Zealand
Sir Michael Hardie Boys(1)New Zealand
Sir Thomas EichelbaumNew Zealand
Lainagan NamaliuPapua New Guinea
Michael Norman ManleyJamaica
Lloyd Erskine SandifordBarbados
Helen Elizabeth ClarkNew Zealand
Michael Kenneth MooreNew Zealand
Bikenibeu PaeniuTuvalu
Sir Nicholas Alexandar BraithwaiteGrenada
James Brendan BolgerNew Zealand
Donald Charles McKinnonNew Zealand
William Francis BirchNew Zealand
Thomas Munro Gault(1)New Zealand
Ian Lloyd McKay(1)New Zealand
John Steele Henry(1)New Zealand
Edmund Walter Thomas(1)New Zealand
Percival Noel James PattersonJamaica
Edward Zacca(1)Jamaica
Sir Vincent Floissac(1)St. Lucia
Hubert IngrahamBahamas
Owen Seymour ArthurBarbados
Kamuta LatasiTuvalu
Jennifer Mary ShipleyNew Zealand
Winston Raymond PetersNew Zealand
Douglas Arthur Montrose GrahamNew Zealand
Paul Clayton EastNew Zealand
Sir Kenneth James Keith(1)New Zealand
Peter Blanchard(1)New Zealand
Andrew Patrick Charles Tipping(1)New Zealand
Wyatt Beetham CreechNew Zealand
Dame Sian Seerpoohi Elias(1)New Zealand
Simon UptonNew Zealand

(1) Judges who are or were eligible for membership of the Judicial Committee


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Austria (Bilateral Meetings)

Mr. Jim Murphy: To ask the Prime Minister if he will list the previously planned meetings, and their subject, between him and the Prime Minister of Austria which have been cancelled since the formation of the new Austrian Government. [109868]

The Prime Minister: I had no previously planned meeting with the Chancellor of Austria before the measures of the 14 member states were implemented.

Iraq

Mr. Dalyell: To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to his letter of 8 February to the hon. Member for Linlithgow, if he will set out the conditions which Iraq must fulfil to have made real progress on disarmament. [109601]

The Prime Minister [holding answer 14 February 2000]: Security Council Resolution 1284 sets out the conditions which Iraq must fulfil. The Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC and the Director General of the IAEA will identify the key remaining disarmament tasks to be completed by Iraq. The resolution states that what is required of Iraq for the implementation of each task should be clearly defined and precise.

Central and Regional Government

Mr. Ben Chapman: To ask the Prime Minister when the Performance and Innovation Unit's report on the role of central Government at regional and local level will be published. [110419]

The Prime Minister: The Performance and Innovation Unit's report "Reaching out: the role of central Government at regional and local level" is being published tomorrow.

Copies will be available from the Vote Office.

Review Body on Senior Salaries

Mr. Gapes: To ask the Prime Minister if he will make a statement on the report and recommendations of the Review Body on Senior Salaries. [110420]

The Prime Minister: The 2000 report of the Review Body on Senior Salaries, which makes recommendations about the pay of the senior civil service, senior military personnel and the judiciary, together with the annual uprating of Parliamentary salaries, is being published today. Copies are available from the Vote Office. I am grateful to the Chairman and members of the Review Body for their work.

The main recommendations of the Review Body are:


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The Government have decided to accept these recommendations. Their cost will be met within existing Departmental Expenditure Limits.

Pay increases for Members of Parliament and Ministers are linked automatically to the increase in pay bands for the senior civil service. Their pay entitlement will therefore increase from 1 April 2000 by 2.9 per cent.

House of Lords Reform

Mr. Evans: To ask the Prime Minister what plans he has to bring forward proposals for reform of the House of Lords; and on what timescale. [110336]

The Prime Minister: The Government have made it clear that they wish to give proper consideration to the recommendations of the Royal Commission. That process is still continuing.


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